I am just barely old enough to remember when the whole commercial hip-hop genre was in its embryonic stages, with the likes of the Sugar Hill Gang and the Gary Byrd Experience. Back then in the late 70's and early 80's, most rap and hip-hop tracks had a happy-go-lucky vibe, with lyrics that talked about such things as who was the best MC or DJ. There were more serious rappers, like Grandmaster Flash, who rapped about life in the ghetto. But even then, the songs had an overall positive vibe and the lyrics, although sometimes a bit deep and serious, usually tried to positively educate the young listener by speaking to them on their level and using terms that they can relate to. It was when we reached the mid 80's that hip-hop really started to evolve and many sub-genres started to develop. There were artists like Rob Base, Ice-T, Public Enemy, Run DMC, The Beastie Boys, Tone-Loc, De La Soul, and countless others.

Whatever you thought about any of these artists, hip-hop had a sense of honesty and integrity about it. For the most part, it appears that the genre sprang out of the grassroots. A lot of rap artists had actually lived the kind of life they rapped about. To some extent or other, many of them had already gained first-hand experience of the guns, drugs, racism, gang warfare, and the general despair of living life in the ghetto. For example, many of these issues were covered in a song called Colors, by Ice-T. In this song, Ice-T plays a character who lives this kind of life. Ice-T admits that he didn't personally live that kind of life but the character is based on the kind of person who does. Then a couple of years later, a rap outfit called NWA started rapping about the same issues in their debut album, Straight Outta Compton. And although the music was very good, they gave the misleading impression that they were actually living lives as gangsters in the ghetto. But in reality these guys were living millionaire lifestyles in the lap of luxury. I personally found this to be somewhat hypocritical and it was at this point that I realised that hip-hop had been taken over by the marketing gurus, who weren't just selling a lie, they were selling it to kids under the pretence that artists like "Vanilla Ice" had actually tasted life in the ghetto - yeah right!

Now hip-hop has reached the stage where it is being used to predictively program the minds of today's youth. In addition, many of today's top hip-hop artists are clearly involved to some degree in secret fraternal orders. They even have the audacity to flash masonic symbols all over the place. To me, this is an insult to the people who buy their music, and it shows that freemasonry has infiltrated just about every part of society, right down to the grassroots levels. I mean, if you can't even buy an album from your favorite rap artist without being predictively programmed and bombarded with masonic symbols and terms, what is the world coming to?

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Rap artists who say one thing and live another are common. It is all about COMMERCIALISM. It is about what sells. Now, going back to the hip-hop you mentioned to begin with, political messages rose out of that. And then, you had the controllers of the media moving away from political rappers to start promoting "gangster rappers." So, if the freemasons hi-jacked hip-hop, it had to be in this way.

Beyond this, the millions being made mean that rappers have resources. You have to remember that Masonic signs and symbols are to be found on all paper money, so in their view it is their money and they control it. They also control those who have it by bringing them into the lodges and making members of them. As long as this occurs, We as a people are going to have GREAT DIFFICULTY using U.S. currency to fund a movement of BLACK NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE.

Rap artists who say one thing and live another are common. It is all about COMMERCIALISM. It is about what sells. Now, going back to the hip-hop you mentioned to begin with, political messages rose out of that. And then, you had the controllers of the media moving away from political rappers to start promoting "gangster rappers." So, if the freemasons hi-jacked hip-hop, it had to be in this way.

Beyond this, the millions being made mean that rappers have resources. You have to remember that Masonic signs and symbols are to be found on all paper money, so in their view it is their money and they control it. They also control those who have it by bringing them into the lodges and making members of them. As long as this occurs, We as a people are going to have GREAT DIFFICULTY using U.S. currency to fund a movement of BLACK NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE.

Your last statement I think was more important than the thread itself.
The fact that the money is "Masoninc" itself is very concerning when you think of using that to fund ANY movements for independence.
We need to think beyond trying to find ways to "make money" and really MAKE OUR OWN MONEY.

If we have our own piece of currency that we use in our own communites that would eliminate others from thinking they own us.
But here is an even greater question

HOW MUCH DOES INDEPENDENCE COST?
AND IF THERE IS A PRICE, DOESN'T THAT SEEM LIKE WE'RE BUYING OUR FREEDOM?

I think we just need to re-evaulate MANY THINGS.

Thanks for sparking my mind bro.

"We may be investigated, incarcerated or murdered for the things we dare to write...
But we are young and Black, fearless and free...

Your last statement I think was more important than the thread itself.
The fact that the money is "Masoninc" itself is very concerning when you think of using that to fund ANY movements for independence.
We need to think beyond trying to find ways to "make money" and really MAKE OUR OWN MONEY.

If we have our own piece of currency that we use in our own communites that would eliminate others from thinking they own us.
But here is an even greater question

HOW MUCH DOES INDEPENDENCE COST?
AND IF THERE IS A PRICE, DOESN'T THAT SEEM LIKE WE'RE BUYING OUR FREEDOM?

I think we just need to re-evaulate MANY THINGS.

Thanks for sparking my mind bro.

My belief is that we should have the courage to mint & print our own currency and establish our own economic system, like The Honorable Elijah Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) said we should.

When you speak of a SLAVE people becoming independent, you are speaking of "blood sacrifices." That is the ultimate cost.

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